Ezra Levant - No-one is above, no-one is beneath
By Ezra Levant on March 14, 2008 3:56 PM
I was interviewed today by a newspaper reporter doing a story on Canada’s broken human rights commissions. I tried to sum up some of my recent thoughts more concisely than I’ve done on my blog. Talking about it with the reporter helped me work through my thinking.
It’s all about the rule of law.
And the rule of law means that no-one is above the law and no-one is beneath the law.
That is, no-one is so powerful or mighty — or so saintly, if they do say so themselves — that they are exempt from the restrictions of the law. That’s what Eliot Spitzer’s downfall was about, in part: a law enforcer who thought legal limits didn’t apply to his own bad behaviour. In the context of Canada’s human rights commissions, HRC staff and activists who admit to posting “hate messages” on bigoted websites are acting above the law.
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